High-risk space-time clusters of mortality in children 5 to 14 years of age in Mato Grosso state, Brazil
Mônia Maia de Lima,
Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama,
Alexsandra Rodrigues de Mendonça Favacho
et al.
Abstract:The study aimed to detect high-risk areas for deaths of children and adolescents 5 to 14 years of age in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, from 2009 to 2020. This was an exploratory ecological study with municipalities as the units of analysis. Considering mortality data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) and demographic data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the study used multivariate statistics to identify space-time clusters of excess mortality risk in this age group… Show more
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